Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = O
SESCETPKNZEDUNYSCPXNJEDLPPKTSXCPFUED-HNVUDZED-XDZZDY,NJHJDEEDWPJEAZPNFFTSCPBBCSJDJPQNCLPE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 34
6 cryptograms to solve with a pencil. Each letter of the quote has been swapped for another letter, and the same swap holds all the way through.
20 pt ciphertext — the size a newspaper puzzle page never gives you. 26 pt ciphertext with wide letter spacing and room to write. Both sizes print on US Letter with the answer key on its own page.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: W = T
WZKSKJTFWJUKEVSTVUKWZJQOT,FQAFWJUKEVSFNNWZJQOT;FWJUKEVSOSKFWWZJQOT,FQAFWJUKEVSTUFNNWZJQOT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: N = O
PHUNQUNIDFWNRFNLDBKVDFWDVDCDMZNJTMRNVNTUNSPNKLZMQLLNDJJDBFKMZMLFWDPVLFVPBFBNULFVKBFPNU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: D = E
QLNJNBANIDNSPXDLPQDBZ,ADJNGPDWSNTJMWSWDVXPDSANSSADVNPDMLSAMWDSAQBFWOQTTVMBSQBXDNLSDPAQJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = E
FQEUDXFDPKYXSDRZDXNPKFJSYJRPYXFQEDBQREFYQRPKFXXDBDQZDJJDHDBRPFGSYBERQERKHRQZDJTDBDGRKD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: R = T
RIJBVUYOJXVBJCBKABYJLVHVLOJWVRAESRVERSCYCXRVLNOCXWVXRNJ,KNRVERSRIJXJFVSESHCOORIJWVXRNJB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Solver's cheat sheet
- Most common letters
- E T A O I N S H R D L U
- Most common 1-letter words
- A I
- Most common 2-letter words
- OF TO IN IT IS BE AS AT SO WE HE BY OR ON DO IF ME MY UP AN GO NO US AM
- Most common 3-letter words
- THE AND FOR ARE BUT NOT YOU ALL ANY CAN HER WAS ONE OUR OUT DAY GET HAS HIM HIS HOW MAN NEW NOW OLD SEE TWO WAY WHO BOY DID ITS LET PUT SAY SHE TOO USE
- Common double letters
- LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC
- Common word endings
- -ING -ION -ENT -TION -LY -ED -ER -EST
- After an apostrophe
- T (don't) S (it's) RE (we're) VE (I've) LL (we'll) D (I'd)
Want this on its own sheet? Print the letter frequency chart.
Show the answer key (6 solutions)
- “It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. IX (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=G C=S D=O E=T F=L G=J H=D I=C J=N K=P L=K M=Z N=A O=Q P=E Q=B R=X S=I T=H U=F V=Y W=V X=M Y=W Z=R
- “There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, Don Quixote, Part II, Chap. XXXV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=K C=Z D=J E=F F=A G=P H=W I=V J=I K=E L=X M=B N=L O=G P=Y Q=N R=Q S=R T=S U=M V=O W=T X=C Y=U Z=H
- “I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1869, From the Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=C C=P D=E E=Z F=T G=J H=K I=M J=F K=U L=S M=A N=O O=Q P=I Q=W R=D S=X T=B U=N V=R W=H X=Y Y=V Z=L
- “If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=H B=N C=B D=E E=X F=G G=Y H=Q I=V J=M K=P L=F M=O N=A O=W P=R Q=I R=K S=T T=L U=Z V=C W=S X=U Y=J Z=D
- “In the field of peaceful disposal of international differences several important advances were made.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=X B=R C=B D=E E=T F=I G=M H=V I=Q J=S K=D L=Z M=Y N=U O=J P=L Q=N R=A S=P T=W U=H V=G W=K X=F Y=O Z=C
- “The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=Y B=S C=A D=W E=N F=G G=Z H=F I=H J=E K=B L=C M=Q N=U O=L P=K Q=X R=T S=O T=D U=M V=I W=V X=R Y=P Z=J